Industry: AUTOMATIC MERCHANDISING MACHINE OPERATORS, Insider Trading

IPO stands for Initial Public Offering. An IPO is done when a privately owned company wants to sell a portion of it to public investors. Through this process the company is transformed from a privately owned to a company owned by public investors. More ...

Illegal Insider trading occurs when a trade has been influenced by the possession of "material" and "non-public" information about the security. Because such information is not available to other investors, a person using it is trying to gain an unfair advantage over others. More ...